FOR KIDS: Ripples in one of Saturn?s rings

Scientists study pattern created by 600-year-old comet crash

Web edition : Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

No one on Earth noticed when a comet plowed through Saturn?s rings and blasted apart. Of course we missed it: The flying ?dirty snowball? broke up 600 years ago, more than 200 years before Galileo Galilei first gazed through the telescope and mistook Saturn?s legendary rings for handles or mammoth moons.

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